On the Jan-Moir-Day, October 16, the discussion was much more diversified. - Photo: Trendsmap.com

Trendsmap currently processes about 5m tweets a day using various algorithms to list them by region and time. Stronger trends are represented by larger, darker topics. As another Twitter statistic tool, Trendistic, reports, the issue was "hot" for 22 hours from Thursday 6am until Friday 4am and is now building up again.

Trendistic shows the intensity of the topic on Twitter - Photo: Trendistic.com Photograph: Public Domain

There was one Twitter account that remained silent, though. The BNP chairman's statistics show: "Tweets: 1." Obviously Griffin isn't much of a Twitterer.